Buttonhole-tape.



No. 8 6,924. PATENTED MAY 5, 1908. I A. BERNSTEIN.-

BUTTONHOLE TAPE.

Arrmomlon FILED 1330.21, 1907.

ATTORNEY I UNITE .AnoLPnBERNsTErNQoF NEW YORK, .N. Y.

s PATENT OFFICE.

f -BU'rToNHoLE-TAPE.

T all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, ADOLPH Bn'nnsrnm; a

citizen of the United States, residing at New,

Figure 1 shows a continued piece or stripof tape serviceable in making the article of this invention. Fig. 2 shows in face view the strip of Fig. l folded. Fig. 3 is an edge view of Fig. 2. Figs. 4 and 5 show in face and edge View a different manner of folding.

Figs. 6 and 7 show a strip of Fig. 3 provided with an interlining.

In this drawing is shown a band or tape 1 which is doubled or folded along line 2 so as to give two thicknesses or plies and which I has a further fold or lap as shown at 3 to give lap 3.' This -40 a third thickness.

The button holes have their stitchings or loops of sewing indicated at 41 These stitches pass through the two plies of material near the edge at fold 2 and through the three plies formed by the lap 3.

Another lap 5 canbeallowed to extend in fiat condition beyond the edge of lap-3 or said portion 5 can be folded but so as to allow a suitable margin to project beyond the part 5 is not engaged by the button hole stitches so as to be free to be left flat or to be lapped or folded. In either case this part 5 pro ects beyond the lap or ed e at 3. If part 5 is left flat the tape is ma e so much wider. Such projecting pai't serves for securing or sewing the strip to a garment, shirt waist or the like. The stitches running along projecting edge part 5 secure a firm hold and the margin of projection at 5 is of such width that even in possible irregularities in sewing or fastening the tape will not be spaced or pushed from the garment sofar t at the stitches can miss the tape or its edge 5. p r

An interlining is shown at 6. Such strip or lining 6 if laid in the folds or doubled tape Specificatioh of Letters Patent.

is hidden and it adds to the r Patented May 5, 1908.

1i'c,oiioifD-3cemper 251907. Serial No. 407,506.

strength of the article.

The buttonhole tape or strip as shown es sentially consists of a continuous strip of fabric formed from a single piece of material folded longitudinally to provide two plies, the free edge portion of the one ply-being lapped inwardly and held between both plies so that the free edgeof the remaining ply projects outwardly beyond that which islapped inwardly and in some instances the free edge of the ply extending beyond the in wardly lap ed free edge of the remaining ply and partia lylapped so that a double thickness will be formed in the portion of the tape or strip projecting beyond the inwardly lapped ply. The article as shown avoids unnecessary thickness-or bulkiness and at the same time none of the exposed edges is left raw or unfinished. The buttonhole stitching passes through not more than three thicknesses of material at any point, as seen by these stitches, at the edge portion 2, while at the portion '3 these buttonhole stitches pass through not more than two thicknesses of material. The lap 5 is sewed to the waistband of the trousers or nether garment and is left with a free edge, while the edges 2 and 3 are rounded in the preferred form so that a finish at the latter edges is produced. The lap 5 is left so wide as to allow stitches to get a hold and avoid missing the edge as at times has occurred in .well known buttonhole tapes or strips, especially in quick operations.

What I claim is 1. A buttonhole tape consisting of a folded strip of material having two plies at one edge and a maximum of three plies at the opposite edge, and buttonhole stitchings passing through the two plies near one edge and the three pliesat the opposite edge, an edge of the tape bein left'free from the plies and disengaged by the buttonhole stitching and extending beyond the body portion of the tape a suitable distance for stitching to permit attachment of the tape after being spaced or pushed from the garment in sew- As a new article of manufacture, a continuous ready-madebuttonhole strip, consisting of a continuous strip of fabric formed from a single piece of material folded longitudinally to provide two plies, the free edge of one ply projecting beyond the adjacent edge portion of the other ply to serve as an attaching means forthe tape or strip, and a continuous series of se arated long, narrow loops of buttonhole stitc 'ng passing through the plies near the opposite edges of the strip.

3. As a new article of manufacture, a continuous ready-made buttonhole strip, consisting of a continuous strip of fabric formed from a single piece of material folded longitudinally to provide two plies, the free e e of one ply being lapped inwardly and he (1 between the two plies, and the edgeof the remaining ply prpjecting outwardly beyond the lapped edge of the first mentioned ply to serve as en attaching means for the tape or strip, and a continuous "series of separated 15 long, narrow loops of buttonhole stitching passing through the two plies of the fabric near one edge of the strip and through the three plies of the fabric near the other edge of the strip. a Q 20 In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two. subscribing Witnesses. V v I ADOLPH BERNSTE-IN,

Witnesses:- a

OHRIs'rIAN ALMs'rAEDr, WILLIAM MILLER. 

